Wildways Dry Senior Dog Food Fresh Chicken with Salmon & Vegetables

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Wildways Dry Senior Dog Food Fresh Chicken with Salmon & Vegetables

DryCompleteSeniorGrain-freeFish oil
52/ 100
FairTop 4% of dry foods

89% of dry foods score under 45.

Score v6.1.0 · label checked 4 Oct 2026

Good points

  • 72% meat
  • No ingredient deductions
  • Includes organ meat

First ingredients: Fresh Chicken (40%), Chicken Protein (26%), Peas (10%), Salmon Protein (4%), Chickpeas (4%)… All ingredients

Retailer’s own label, fully checked
Meat
72%
Protein, dry weight
32%
Carbs, dry weight
~41%
kcal/100 g
366

Ingredients

Listed first: Fresh Chicken. 72% of the recipe is declared meat.

  • Meat 72%
  • Plants 22%
  • Other 5.1%

Fresh Chicken (40%), Chicken Protein (26%), Peas (10%), Salmon Protein (4%), Chickpeas (4%), Pumpkin (4%), Dried Apple Pulp (4%), Poultry Fat (3%), Chicken Liver (2%), Salmon Oil (1%), Eggs Shells (1%), Pea Flour, Glucosamine (0.026%), Chondroitin Sulphate (0.018%), Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.015%), Inulin (a source of Fructo-oligosaccharides, 0.01%), Yucca Mojave (0.01%), Dried Milk Thistle (0.01%), Dried Rosemary (0.003%), Dried Curcuma (0.003%)

Meat named animal protein

Additives

Nutritional Additives: Vitamin A 18,000IU, Vitamin D3 1,400IU Vitamin E 500mg, Vitamin C 250mg Taurine 1,500mg, L-carnitine 50mg, Choline Chloride 1,800mg, Biotin 0.5mg; Trace Elements: Zinc (as Zinc Chelate of Protein Hydrolysates) 85mg, Iron (as Iron (II) Chelate of Protein Hydrolysates) 65mg, Manganese (as Manganese Chelate of Protein Hydrolysates) 35mg, Iodine (as Potassium Iodide) 0.6mg, Copper (as Copper(II) Chelate of Protein Hydrolysates) 15mg, Selenium (as Selenised Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Cncm I-3060, Inactivated) 0.16mg Antioxidants

How we read this label

First ingredient: “Fresh Chicken”. It names the animal.

Each ingredient on the label, how we read it, and the share the label gives
On the labelWe read it asShare on the label
Fresh Chicken (40%)Named meat40%
Chicken Protein (26%)Named meat26%
Peas (10%)Vegetable, fruit or plant10%
Salmon Protein (4%)Named meat4%
Chickpeas (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
Pumpkin (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
Dried Apple Pulp (4%)Vegetable, fruit or plant4%
Poultry Fat (3%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient3%
Chicken Liver (2%)Named meat2%
Salmon Oil (1%)Fat, stock, extract or other processed ingredient1%
Eggs Shells (1%)Other1%
Pea FlourVegetable, fruit or plantNot given
Glucosamine (0.026%)Other0.026%
Chondroitin Sulphate (0.018%)Other0.018%
Mannan-oligosaccharides (0.015%)Other0.015%
Inulin (a source of Fructo-oligosaccharides, 0.01%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.01%
Yucca Mojave (0.01%)Other0.01%
Dried Milk Thistle (0.01%)Other0.01%
Dried Rosemary (0.003%)Vegetable, fruit or plant0.003%
Dried Curcuma (0.003%)Other0.003%

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Nutrition

Protein 32% and carbs about 41%, with the water taken out.

Analysis as sold and with the water taken out
NutrientAs soldDry weight
Protein29%32%
within the usual 26 to 32% for dry foods
Fat12%13%
Carbohydrate~37%~41%
within the usual 39 to 50% for dry foods
Fibre4.6%5.1%
Ash7.5%8.3%
Moisturenot on label, 10% assumed10%taken out

Carbohydrate is our estimate: what is left after the other shares. The usual range is the middle half of the dry foods we rate.

Energy366 kcal/100 g

Why it scores 52

The kind of meat scored best (12.5 of 15). How it’s made scored lowest (6 of 20).

  1. How much meat?

    27.2 / 45 points
    • Meat on the label25.2 / 35 points

      72% declared meat, as weighed before cooking; full marks at 100%.

    • Protein level2 / 10 points

      Protein is 32.2% of the food with the water taken out. Nothing at 20% or less, full marks at 80%.

  2. How much starch?

    6.3 / 20 points

    Estimated carbohydrate: About 41% carbohydrate with the water taken out (our estimate). Full marks with no carbohydrate, none at 60% or more.

  3. How processed?

    6 / 20 points

    How it’s made: Extruded kibble: 6 of 20.

  4. What kind of meat?

    12.5 / 15 points
    • How the meat is listed9.5 / 12 points

      The label lists the meat as fresh and meal, which earns 79% of these points. Fresh or raw named meat earns all of them, dried 70%, meal half, hydrolysed a quarter, an unnamed category none.

    • Organ meat3 / 3 points

      Organ meat such as liver, heart, kidney or tripe is named.

No ingredient deductions.

Each bar is as long as the points it is worth, out of 100 in all.

Against other dry foods

Top 4% of dry foods. 3 foods share this score. Each bar counts the ranked dry foods in a 5-point step of score.

What the score means

One scale for every food: meat (45 points), starch (20), how it’s made (20) and kind of meat (15), minus points for a few listed ingredients. It rates the recipe, not your dog.

75 and over is excellent, 60 to 74 good, 45 to 59 fair and under 45 weak.

How we rate foods →

Less starch in the bowl

Half and half by calories with Animonda GranCarno Original Senior (scores 69): carbs fall from 41% to 25% by dry weight, and protein is about 38%.

Worked out from both labels, for half the day’s calories from each food. The feeding guides on the packs still set the amounts.

Best wet foods →

Ingredient notes

1 noted, no points taken: yucca extract. 29 flagged nothing.

  • 1 noted
  • 29 nothing flagged
29 ingredients with nothing flagged

Apples, biotin (vitamin H/B7), chicken, chickpeas, chicory root extract, choline chloride, chondroitin, egg, glucosamine, l-carnitine, liver (animal organ), mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), milk thistle, peas, poultry fat, processed animal protein, pumpkin, rosemary, salmon oil, turmeric, vitamin C (ascorbic acid)

Allowed up to a legal maximum, none declared above it: copper, iodine, iron, manganese, selenium, vitamin A (retinyl acetate), vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), zinc

Checked against the EU Catalogue of Feed Materials and FEDIAF guidelines.

Sources for these ingredients

Notes come from published sources about each ingredient, not about this food. How we decide

Prices

One shop we track sells this: Pets at Home. Checked 4 Oct 2026. Up 11% since 10 Aug.

In stock first, cheapest per kg first, excluding deliveryExcluding delivery

Prices from each shop
ShopPackPricePer kgLink
Pets at Home12kg · £54.99 up 11% since 10 Aug12kg£54.99£4.58/kgCheapest in stockVisit
Pets at Home2kg · £13.99 up 11% since 10 Aug2kg£13.99£7.00/kgVisit

Since 10 Aug (3 readings): Pets at Home up 11%.

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DayShopPackPricePer kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home12kg£54.99£4.58/kg
4 Oct 2026Pets at Home2kg£13.99£7.00/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home12kg£46.74£3.90/kg
27 Sep 2026Pets at Home2kg£11.89£5.95/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home12kg£49.49£4.12/kg
10 Aug 2026Pets at Home2kg£12.59£6.29/kg

Your dog

Cost per day and grams for your dog

Alternatives

1 dry food scores 8 points higher at the same price or less.

Compare side by side →
Meat
78% this food 72%
Carbs
about 8% this food about 41%
To feed
about the same per 1,000 kcal

+8 points

Carbs are a share of the dry food, with the water taken out.

Sources

Own-label food: checked against the retailer’s label.

Retailer-verified. This is the retailer’s own-label food, so there is no separate maker’s website to check it against. We publish it because the retailer’s label is complete and passes our consistency checks.

Page we read, saved 4 Oct 2026: Pets at Home.

Score method v6.1.0 · ingredient notes v2.4.0

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